Should I take A-level Philosophy

I'm taking computer science and mathematics for alevel, i might do art as well but Philosophy sounds more academic, I was wondering how difficult philosophy is and what it is like eg, do you have a lot of content to revise, is the subject as a whole difficult to learn. Plus I am in an extremely Christian religious household and my parents do not want me to take a subject that makes me contradict their beliefs. Would I still be able to get high grades by abiding by this rule, is it a lot of content to revise, please give advice

It is extremely hard and will involve learning things which contradict Christian beliefs, though they will be presented neutrally and of course there's no suggestion that you 'have' to believe or not believe in God.

Will be great training for your mental powers if you take to it though.

I'm taking computer science and mathematics for alevel, i might do art as well but Philosophy sounds more academic, I was wondering how difficult philosophy is and what it is like eg, do you have a lot of content to revise, is the subject as a whole difficult to learn. Plus I am in an extremely Christian religious household and my parents do not want me to take a subject that makes me contradict their beliefs. Would I still be able to get high grades by abiding by this rule, is it a lot of content to revise, please give advice

Ahh, I see- what kind of questions come up?

Questions about the standard attempts to prove God's existence, like as an explanation of the existence of the universe, the appearance of design in the universe and arguments against God's existence like the existence of Evil.

There's also the topic of the mind/soul, what is the nature of consciousness, are there arguments for it being non-physical, can science explain consciousness.

Then there's moral philosophy, what is the best system to determine right from wrong, is there even such a thing as right or wrong or is it just subjective feelings in our mind etc.

Finally there's epistemology, the question of what we can know, whether we can know anything, couldn't we be in the matrix and what are the arguments against such arguments which seem to show that we can't know anything.

The ultimate feature of Philosophy A level is learning how to argue and counter-argue.

I'm taking computer science and mathematics for alevel, i might do art as well but Philosophy sounds more academic, I was wondering how difficult philosophy is and what it is like eg, do you have a lot of content to revise, is the subject as a whole difficult to learn. Plus I am in an extremely Christian religious household and my parents do not want me to take a subject that makes me contradict their beliefs. Would I still be able to get high grades by abiding by this rule, is it a lot of content to revise, please give advice

If you're thinking about doing Philosophy/Ethics i'd just go the full hog and do English language instead. Philosophy is more mickey mouse than English and you'll still have to remember theorists in both. Coming from someone who did both (dropped Philosophy after AS), I can tell you Philosophy&Ethics is completely different to RE Gcse... I also did Compsci and maths too and am now going onto do CompSci at uni.

I think he’s talking about philosophy A level not religious studies. Not sure though. Micky mouse =?

I'm taking computer science and mathematics for alevel, i might do art as well but Philosophy sounds more academic, I was wondering how difficult philosophy is and what it is like eg, do you have a lot of content to revise, is the subject as a whole difficult to learn. Plus I am in an extremely Christian religious household and my parents do not want me to take a subject that makes me contradict their beliefs. Would I still be able to get high grades by abiding by this rule, is it a lot of content to revise, please give advice